There isn't enough difference between record and chorus to make record worth buying! They use the same internals in the shifters and chours comes with a more durable cassette and chain.. That is pretty much the difference other than a few grams in the mechs.

You didn't spend as much as you have on your Baum though too cheap out now and not get Super record..

My very humble take on the last photo is that it has too many different little color elements that don't seem to all flow together. Suggestions from a very vain bike newbie

1.If your going to keep the white Toupe then go white on the bar tape, it will line up really well with the Baum lettering and the saddle2.If you stick with the SRAM Red the little bits of red coloring could be removed. I think the Red Crank/Chainrings look decent in that the black and gray parts sort of go with the frame but again the red bits kinda ruin it. I think the red draws your eye a bit too much which, aside from the few tiny spots of it, isn't anywhere else on the frame to kinda tie the color in to the overall look.3.The wheels actually look ok to be barring that you de-badge them totally. The little yellow and red bit on the wheels stickers again draw my eye away from the bike itself and instead to the "odd splash" of color that doesn't really match anything else.

These are all just some brief suggestions on what I felt/saw when first looking at those photo's. I tried to just say what I saw and let it be at that. Feel free to completely disagree or ignore them as the rambling of some crazy person

The purple colour matching didn't last because it wasn't done properly, basically.

FWIW I have a set of Chorus waiting to go on it so that'll deal with the colouring on the Red groupset. In fact that colouring is exactly why I went for Chorus over Record or SR! I also have white tape waiting in the wings.

You're right on the wheel logos too. Perhaps that's what's needed - non-Mavic tyres and removal of the Mavic graphics...

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